nd by means of close and intense community life.

As regards the N.S.A.'s request concerning Mrs. Bishop's teaching services
in England, the Guardian wishes you to assure your fellow-members of his
hearty approval of their suggestion that she should extend her stay in
your country for another year. He is advising her to visit Geneva for a
brief period and then return immediately back to England....

[From the Guardian:]

Dearest co-worker,

I wish to congratulate in person the English believers, and particularly
the members of the youth group, on their splendid achievements. The
activities they have initiated, the perseverance, zeal and fidelity they
have increasingly manifested, the plans they have conceived and the
obstacles they have already overcome, rejoice my heart and arouse fresh
hopes and expectations within me. I will continue to pray for their
success. Rest assured and persevere.

Affectionately,
Shoghi

Letter of 2 December 1936

2 December 1936

Dear Baha'i Friend,

Your kind letter of November 22nd with enclosures have been read with deep
interest and profound gratitude by our beloved Guardian, and their
contents have imparted fresh encouragement to his heart. He has also
received your communication of the 28th September with the accompanying
minutes of the British N.S.A. and the report of your Summer School, and is
indeed sorry for the long delay in thanking you for them.

Regarding Mr. Townshend, the Guardian is pleased to hear that he has
written you, and offered a method whereby he could be freed to serve the
Faith. He is confident that your N.S.A. will give this matter their most
careful and sympathetic consideration, and fervently hopes that they will,
as a result, be able to find some way that would relieve Mr. Townshend of
his many domestic cares and troubles which, as you know only too well,
seriously impede the progress and expansion of his activities for the
Faith.

It is a matter of deep regret, indeed, that our dear friend's material
position is such as to make it quite impossible for him to devote his full
time and energies to the Cause. The friends in Great Britain, who are in
special need of his able assistance in their teaching work, should,
therefore, consider it their responsibility to find some solution to this
urgent problem facing one of their most distinguished and competent
fellow-workers.

Any suggestion which your N.S.A. could offer would certainly be deepl